I started reading Dave Barry’s column a few months ago and each week he manages to make me laugh. He is at the top of a very short list of good humor columnists. (I wrote that before I saw that page. How convenient.) I’ve found that it’s not hard to find humor columnists; the hard part is finding ones with the ability to make me laugh.
In addition to laughing, I enjoy making people laugh. I’m still working on that in my writing (let us not speak of the funny bull). By observing how other literary comedians have succeeded, I hope to pick up on a trick or two. A search produced the following list of potentially funny writers.
Joe Lavin
Art Buchwaldart
Sheila Moss
Joe Shockley
Melvin Durai
W Bruce Cameron
Tim Bete
Woo, Dave Barry is hilarious. And I don’t think he’s once mentioned the funny bull, he just instinctively grasps it by its horns! I don’t know how well reading funny stuff works for making one funny (I read funny stuff all the time!), but good luck with your efforts.
Looks like Dave Barry has a weblog of his own. (via blogroots)
He moved.
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